Python - Activate conda env through shell script

Question

I am hoping to run a simple shell script to ease the management around some conda environments. Activating conda environments via conda activate in a lin

Answer 1

I also had the exact same error when trying to activate conda env from C++ or Python file. I solved it by bypassing the conda activate statement and using the absolute path of the specific conda env.

For me, I set up an environment called "testenv" using conda.

I searched all python environments using

whereis python | grep 'miniconda'

It returned a list of python environments. Then I ran my_python_file.py using the following command.

~/miniconda3/envs/testenv/bin/python3.8 my_python_file.py

You can do the same thing on windows too but looking up for python and conda python environments is a bit different.